Last updated on 9 February 2025
How to extract the text contained in an image? How Easily retrieve text from a photo to be able to edit it in a word processor without the need to retype everything by hand? Here are three simple and free OCR tools that will troubleshoot you and identify text on image. Three online utilities that will know how to extract text from an image found on the internet or taken with a camera.
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OnlineOcr
OnlineOcr is a kind of image to text converter. It will allow you to extract from the text from any image or turn image into text if you want. You can also convert PDFs to Doc, Excel or Text formats and change the text of an image. The online optical character recognition software is of high quality. Just upload the image you want to scan, then select the language of the text and validate. In a few seconds, it will recognise the text on an image and display it. You can copy and paste it into any word processor. This Ocr tool is free. Be careful where you click, the site is full of advertisements.
New Ocr
New Ocr is another free online tool offering a good OCR to extract the text contained in an image. He will indulge in image writing recognition. Once again, simply upload your image and choose the language in which the OCR will work. More interestingly, when you upload your image, a button allows you to preview the text in the image before you start character recognition.
OCRtoEdit
OCRtoEdit also offers free online ocr software to recover the text file from an image. Upload files and use the OCR to convert scanned images containing text to plain text that you can copy, paste and edit into a Microsoft Word document or convert an image to excel text. OCRtoEdit allows you to search for your image from a URL or on an online server such as Dropbox or Google Drive.
Three simple and free OCR online tools. Many other apps can help you extract text from an image or PDF or as with the Google Lens mobile app perform a search with your camera. Some like Evernote including searching for text present in an image database.
English
Good morning.
There are also Google Docs in Google Drive. You must first upload the image file (or PDF) to Google Drive and then right-click on the file icon and choose ‘Open with …Google Docs’. As with other OCR tools, the original layout is unfortunately lost.
Thank you Robert I succeeded thanks to your method